Shaun Ren Email & Phone Number

Wine Development

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Superconducting Quantum Devices Group (PI: Adrian Lupascu)Worked on an experiment to demonstrate the phenomenon of entanglement harvesting.
• Developed a Python library for controlling instruments in experimental setups and for collecting and analyzing experimental data.
• Designed and constructed microwave apparatus for experiments
• Co-authored a paper on flux qutrit randomized benchmarking

Palo Alto, CA

Developed tools in Haskell for the automatic generation of car firmware artifacts.

Tokyo, Japan

• Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (PI: Kentaro Somiya)
• Extended a theoretical analysis of thermoelastic noise on KAGRA's mirrors to the nonequilbrium case.
• Developed libraries in Haskell for real-time detector sensor monitoring.

Mountain View, CA

Wrote a distributed visit clustering pipeline to improve Analytics conversion prediction model accuracy by 10%.

Waterloo, ON

• Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group (PI: Norbert Lutkenhaus)
• Investigated several numerical optimization methods for quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol keyrate computation
• Developed a Python package for QKD computations from scratch

Kirkland, WA

• Worked under AI team
• Implemented multilingual character-level deep convolutional neural networks for text classification
• Optimized hyperparameters using large-scale GPU clusters
• Debugged NVIDIA GPU performance issues
• Contributed to TensorFlow development

Waterloo, ON

• Worked on the DLNA backend of Media Go
• Implemented on-the-fly MP3 transcoder using LAME
• Wrote DLNA Certification Test automation server with Microsoft Casablanca (HTTP REST SDK)
• Implemented DLNA push/pull support for all removable media
• Debugged network protocol issues

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics

Bachelor Of Mathematics, Computer Science

Minor in Physics

Research Exchange Student, Physics

Somiya Lab

Peel Regional Enhanced Program

Activities and Societies: President of Woodlands Computer Science Club